The IPO squeeze just keeps getting worse

US grid-battery Prices dropped 70 Percent More than 3 Decades

Expand (charge: Diana Robinson / Flickr) In the past several decades, the price of solar energy and wind power has dropped precipitously, which has {} the development of those renewable energy technology. Increasingly, utilities are currently looking for a prospective grid controlled by wind and solar. Which will require adjustments in grid control and transmission […]

Marketers can’t predict what you’ll buy—even if they use A.I.

Popular media has been warning us about the ability of unsavory marketers and other bad actors to predict and even control our choices using the latest in tracking and artificial intelligence technologies.   In the 2019 Netflix documentary The Great Hack, for instance, the case is made that the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica scraped social media […]

Meet Thistle, the startup that wants to secure billions of IoT devices

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For more than two decades, Window Snyder has built security into products at some of the biggest companies in the world. Now, she’s unveiling her own company that aims to bake security into billions of connected devices made by other companies. San Francisco-based Thistle Technologies said on Thursday that it received […]